Sunny Boy beginning his snow man.

"Aren't you going coasting?" called Oliver again. "Come on, Sunny Boy.
Nelson and Ruth have gone to dancing school and we can have heaps of
fun."

"I have to build a snow man," replied Sunny Boy. "I want to surprise
my grandpa. Do you want to help build him, Oliver?"

"Why, I don't mind," said Oliver. "Wait till I bring my sled in. I
left it out on your front steps."

He ran through the house, and when he came back in a few moments there
were four other boys with him. They brought in a good deal of snow,
but Harriet did not mind; she said she would rather sweep up snow than
mud, any time.

"Here's Jimmie Butterworth, Sunny Boy," cried Oliver, as the five lads
tumbled down the steps, "and Perry and Leslie and Harry. We'll all
help you build a snow man."

Sunny Boy was glad to see his friends, and the snow man grew very fast
with six boys to work on him. First they rolled the biggest snowball
you ever saw. It took pretty nearly all the snow in Sunny Boy's yard,
and he and the other boys had to go into Nelson Baker's yard and get
more snow to make a head for the snow man.

The great big snowball made the body of the snow man and a smaller ball
was his head. They made him arms, too, and stuck a broomstick through
one so that he looked, a little way off, as though he were carrying a